Climate-related risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth are projected to increase with global warming of 1.5°C and increase further with 2°C.
Global Warming of 1.5°C is the first in a series of Special Reports to be produced in the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change’s (“IPCC”) Sixth Assessment Cycle.
The report finds that limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require “rapid and far-reaching” transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would need to fall by about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030,reaching ‘net zero’ around 2050. This means that any remaining emissions would need to be balanced by removing CO2 from the air.
“The good news is that some of the kinds of actions that would be needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C are already underway around the world, but they would need to accelerate,” said Valerie Masson-Demotte, Co-Chair of Working Group I.
Links to the IPCC’s Global Warming of 1.5°C special report follows:
Chapter 1 – Framing and Context
Chapter 2 – Mitigation pathways compatible with 1.5°C in the context of sustainable development
Chapter 3 – Impacts of 1.5oC global warming on natural and human systems
Chapter 4 – Strengthening and implementing the global response
Chapter 5 – Sustainable Development, Poverty Eradication and Reducing Inequalities
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